SortStack #880 — 2028-11-05
By population · Order from fewest to most people.
- Athletes who competed at the Paris 2024 Olympics 10.5K
The first Games with full gender parity: exactly half the quota places went to women.
- The population of Malta 540K
The EU's smallest member squeezes onto islands smaller than Philadelphia.
- The population of Qatar 2.7M
Citizens are outnumbered roughly eight to one by foreign workers and expats.
- The population of the United Kingdom 68M
More than a third of everyone in England lives in just the Southeast corner around London.
- The population of Russia 144M
The world's largest country by land has fewer people than Bangladesh.
- Everyone living on the African continent 1.5B
The youngest continent: the median African is around 19 years old.